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As a casual node user, I'd love to better understand how this release compares to io.js. Are they diverging more? Is node playing catch-up?

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Node inspector should now work properly like it does on iojs (https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/7102) but this still isn't a stable v8, according to the v8 maintainers.

io.js is built against a much more current version of V8, which notably has default-on support for a lot of ES6 stuff.

Quite frankly, as a casual node user myself, I'm sticking with node v0.10 for the time being. I want to see how everything shakes out, and my site runs okay for now.

I think the next security "situation" in node and/or io will be a key decision point for many of us in similar situations.

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